AUSTIN - A residential project is coming with an unusual twist — 38 'farmhouse-inspired' homes clustered in an East Austin development that will include an orchard that in a few years will bear peaches and pears that residents can harvest and enjoy year-round.

The $14 million project, under construction at Pleasant Valley Dr. and Webberville Rd., next to LifeWorks, has a nostalgic theme that hearkens back to a time when the world was simpler.

The model home is complete, and more than a dozen more houses will be completed by year-end. So far, 17 houses have been presold and the entire project is due to be complete in 2016.